I know! I usually encounter people who are either hardcore FFXI or WoW and all like, "NO, I have never tried the other, I don't need too because I KNOW it sucks! Bwah!"
My first char was an Elvaan red mage that I got to about 30, then took a hiatus from the game in general (my then-boyfriend now-husband and I originally shared an account before we broke down and got a second
). When I came back to it I still had my Elvaan character but made a Hume girl to be a black mage, which I got to about 60 and then got bored of. By that time I'd already made my male Elvaan as a mule, so I just started leveling his thief, then ninja and ranger, so when I heard about corsair coming out with TAU, he was kind of set to go for it.
And yeah, it ended up being my favorite job.
LOL my husband played a blue mage also! He had an Elvaan male dark knight and a Hume female blue mage, he has a couple sketches up in his gallery at ~
Rya-kun of both of them along with my corsair. Funnily enough, your fiance's char has the same face as my husband's.
I love the pics by the way!
And yeah, I miss the music too, I was actually thinking of ordering the soundtrack recently because it was so beautiful and each zone was just so...fitting.